November 23, 2005

I carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I know I’m not alone on this because as photographers we know that the greatest shots often come at the least expected times and I never want to be unprepared for those great moments.

November 22, 2005

Net2 is an online and offline community created by TechSoup, a project of CompuMentor. We’ve helped nonprofits access direct assistance, web-based knowledge and articles, and donated technology products for 18 years.

This is the official first post announcing planning of the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. I’m taking the opportunity of the Northern Voice conference (and especially the spirit of Moose Camp) to try and put together a mini-conference of a vari

ifPeople recognizes that human contributions of carbon to the atmosphere represent a serious threat to global climate stability, with potential consequences in terms of human health, ecosystem survival, and society’s stability. For that reason, we have co

Posted by kk @ 9:54 am

November 21, 2005

How can we possibly thank our favourite Drupal wizards for all they’ve done for Social Signal and its clients? Well, since you did so much to make our feeds work, the very least we can do is put on a feed for you.

Posted by kk @ 10:45 am

November 16, 2005

atleft is an organization offering high quality, affordable design and web development solutions for nonprofits. We’re a socially conscious group of independent professionals providing a hands-on approach to supporting organizations in effecting social ch

Kris and Roland are XML Conference 2005 in Atlanta representing and presenting. Roland spoke on RSS Remixing Past, Present and Future (PDF) and Kris is giving a Bryght overview talk tomorrow. We’ve had great conversations about Bryght and Drupal with the

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November 11, 2005

Here are all the $10-and-under wines tasted, with notes for the whites and reds that made the tasters’ lists and others the group thought interesting. Countries of origin are included in parentheses, followed by the shop the wines came from (check your lo

Ah, those clever Chinese. First they invent gunpowder and a few other essentials of modern civilization. Now they’re gunning their economic engines. Yet who would have thought that, after a millennium of poverty, they’d already do so many things better th

Posted by kk @ 11:39 am

November 10, 2005

I’m working on a lot of projects lately that have caused me to ask this question and to try to get really clear on what each tool does and does not do well so that I can use the appropriate tool for the task at hand. Here is what I have come up with so fa

we have are just finishing the final touches on our new e.p. tentatively titled: are you ready to die… it should be available sometime in mid-september. right now we are in full rehearsal mode for our fall blitzkrieg of the vancouver music scene. there

The owner of a strip club says heÂ’s considering a six-figure offer from a church to buy and shut down the location. Bill Martin, owner of the Just Teazin club in Painesville Township, 25 miles northeast of Cleveland, declined Thursday to identify the chu

Like most people, I regularly assert that Powerpoint is evil. I often use it when I present, but Iâ€™ve been undertaking ongoing experiments to make it work the way it should. It should augment what Iâ€™m saying, as opposed to distracting from or summariz

No, really, we want people talking. Northern Voice 2006 is pretty much right around the corner. The official deadline is tomorrow* next week, Wednesday, Nov. 16th. So apply as a speaker. Remember, this is a very “open tent”, not necessarily Ã¼ber techie c

It has begun… that time of year that we’ve spent the rest of the year day-dreaming about: deep powder, hot tubs, beer, or whatever else gets you going for winter. Whistler/Blackcomb’s 2005/2006 winter season opened this weekend with the best opening wee

For 3 years I was the editor-in-chief of a great online magazine called *spark. It was a culture and technology monthly with a philosophical bent and great design and photography. Here are the archived issues.